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Last May we got our five lovely bantam girls. As summer approaches I am very heavy-heartedly thinking of re-homing them. The fly problem we had last year was horrendous. Not so much in the coop or the walk-in run (which has a thick layer of sand in the bottom) but around the patio outside our...

I have two pekin bantams who go broody at the same time. And what they do is sit on top of each other in the nest box, or one with the head buried into the others’ feathers. They started up with it again today. Why do they do this? The others go broody singly and try to sit in separate nest...

If you have an Arkus coop, I wonder if you could help. Our new Arkus arrived yesterday. I am already wishing I got the poo tray but hoping I will be able to bodge something ongoing... However I am wondering what you do about daily removal of poo. It seems like the whole roof needs to be removed...

After battling red mite for a month I am getting a new plastic coop today. Our old wooden one has just got too many places to harbour the red mite, and we still have them despite thorough spraying and cleaning and dusting every other day. I know plastic coops do not stop the red mite but I am...

My new Arkus plastic coop arrives tomorrow, and unlike in my current wooden coop my hens will have to perch. Right now they can either perch or sit on the floor in the bedding just underneath. So I am thinking, why bother with bedding material? To save cleaning tasks yet keep it clean, could I...

Giving up on our wooden coop we are getting an Arkus this week so that we can eliminate red mite easier. Time to lay down a good cleaning regime. What tasks do you do weekly and monthly in your plastic coop?do you clean it in situ usually, and how often do you haul it out of the run onto the...

Into my fourth week soon of battling red mite. The wooden coop still has them in, though vastly reduced in number. I have ordered a plastic coop today to stay on top of it better, but it doesn’t arrive for 10 days. When it does, I will have to somehow get rid of the wooden one (how?! I can’t...

hello, fellow chicken-keeping people, please help! My chickens are in a coop/run on the side of our house, which is close to being under our neighbour’s bedroom window. My girls are rather noisy in the morning. If they are let out of the coop into the run, they still make a long kind of...

After three weeks of fighting red mite in our wooden coop, I am done. We have done everything we can, every three days. Yesterday we went over every inch of it with a hot hair dryer, and sprayed it completely and thoroughly with Smite, and dusted down with DE, but still on a piece of tape I put...

I am midway through a battle with a bad red mite infestation. My girls are doing sooooo much better. I sprayed with Jeyes fluid, aired and dried the coop well while keeping the girls away, and am diatoming for all i’m worth. Also used ivermectin as they were very pale when we got back from...